Jim Alfredson

At the least...

I think Palmer was the weakest link. Some of those live videos up on YouTube are hilarious. His time is all over the place. Emerson is obviously a great musician technically speaking, but his playing very rarely has any emotional impact on me. There are exceptions, like some of his piano playing on the first studio ELP record (Trilogy?) and every now and then he plays some pretty cool licks on the organ.

Maybe she checks in once a day or once a week or once a month and reads through various threads. Maybe she has nothing to contribute to the music threads because there is so much knowledge here already. Maybe she prefers to lurk (like a lot of people do here). And when she finds something to comment on, she does. How would you know? In any case, isn't that the whole point of a forum? Does one have to chime in on every thread to be taken seriously or deserve to post in certain threads? I still don't see why it matters.

...like one of those old Wollensaks...about as portable as they got in those days... I wish... No tapes...just a deteriorating memory... I assume Larry was playing organ?

Ise sorry not to ask first, boss, before opening my mouf. I'll just jes shuffle on down the road now and let y'all enjoy your talk about race without meddlin' from the ignorant colored folk. Typical bullshit reply when someone has simply noted that over and over again you only come out when "racism" is at issue. You've got nothing else to say here, ever. I'll ask again, why does it matter? Where is it written that one must be actively posting in all the forums?

Are people still enjoying this feature? Because I have to plop down another $75 to keep it running another year.

So I was watching me some ELP (Emerson Lake and Palmer) on this evening, having a good laugh, and decided to dig out some of their stuff and listen to it while I did some graphic design work. I haven't listened to this stuff in earnest in probably 12 years. I used to be into them in high school. Anyway, I'm listening to this compilation of theirs called "Return of the Manticore" which has some unreleased stuff on it and I get to this tune called "Bo Diddley". And I'm listening and I say to myself, "Holy crap, they just totally ripped off Big John Patton's The Yodel." Seriously. Here's a snippet of The Yodel from the Grassella Oliphant disc with Patton and Grant Green. It's not the best version of the tune by them, but I can't find my copy of Got A Good Thing Going On right now, so it'll have to do: BJP - The Yodel And here's Emerson, Lake, and Palmer doing Bo Diddley: ELP - Bo Diddley That Grasella Oliphant record, which I believe came out before Patton's solo album, is from 1967. Considering ELP didn't even form until 1970-71, I think it's pretty obvious which tune came first. Now granted, the song was unreleased and maybe the producers of the box set just found this tune, un-named, on a reel of tape and took the name from the obvious Bo Diddley-beat drum thing going on, but still... the credits in the CD list it as being written by ELP. At least we know Emerson was listening to good organists!

Why does that matter?

You can usually thaw a turkey in a sink full of water overnight. The butcher probably meant one pound = one hour.

All the best to Lon and Chewy's families. Made four pies today! That oughtta hold 'em!

While the sentiment is fantastic, the same can be said for most musicians, not just jazz musicians. I'm not trying to downplay the foundation, but just stating a fact.

Palmer is not really close to Larry, imo.

All I know is that I'm in charge of making the apple pie.

Greaze Monkey

Well, there goes any lingering respect I might have had for Costello (never liked his music anyway).

In all seriousness, the new version of Explorer does have tabs now (how many years after Firefox did this?) and is pretty nice. I use it on my laptop just because Firefox does not support using my laptop's touchpad as a navigation tool. I wish I could use Thunderbird. I hate Outlook, but my phone is also a PDA which is compatible with Outlook and I need to have my calendar, contacts, and recent emails on my phone.

Everyone's got something to hide, except for me and my monkey.

BeBop, I'm glad you were there but you should've said "HI!", unless you did and I'm just a moron (wouldn't be the first time).

The organist was probably Bobby Forrester, who passed away in 2002. RIP Ruth Brown.

That's why Sega got out of the console market. The hardware costs so much to manufacture that you have to make your money on accessories and games. Of course, despite the company's best efforts, in a year or two (or less) people will figure out how to copy the games, put them up on usenet, and there goes your money. And you wonder why they charge $30 for a remote for the damn thing (at least, that's what the original Xbox remote cost. I have no idea what the PS3 remote costs, but I'd be surprised if they included one with the unit itself).

Never under-estimate the stupidity of the masses.

UP, 'cos it's coming up soon. I hope some board members can make it out. Last time we hung out with Chris Foreman both nights.

This is what I'm talking about... from that article: Well, if he's really "discovering as much as [he] can about the technique that Jimmy Smith pioneered for playing organ bass", then he's not playing all the bass lines on the pedals. He's using a combination of left-hand and pedals, like 99.9% of jazz/blues organists out there who play pedals. The very article is perpetuating the myth.

Scott used to be on this board. Funny guy. The "myth" about organ bass comes mainly from liner notes and biographies. When I saw Dr. Lonnie Smith and talked to him after the gig, I finally found out how the Jimmy Smith style is done. In fact, watching pretty much any jazz organist these days would clue you in to what's actually going on. Steve Winwood is a great musician. That record, "About Time" is well worth picking up. It's a trio (organ, guitar and drums) with some percussion added here and there and Winwood singing his ass off.

I'm still amazed that you're going to be selling alcohol at a church function. Do churches need liquor licenses?